Sr. ETL/Informatica Analyst/Developer

Senior Developer Position

Seeking an experienced Senior Developer who specializes in Informatica, Oracle database and PL-SQL / Data warehouses / Unix servers and shell scripting. Ability to design solutions and conduct data analysis is required. The position will be supporting a custom CRM application, specifically the analytical repository. The repository is an Oracle database, the OS is Unix AIX 6.x. The responsibilities for the position include the analysis, design, and development. The candidate will be assigned to work on a specific project related improving data quality, under the supervision of the ECRM team lead.

Responsibilities:

• Provides ETL processing subject matter expertise to client projects
• Designs and implements industry best ETL technologies to satisfy client requirements
• Designs and develops optimal code to maintain exceptional performance in processing large volumes of data across diverse sources
• Gathers and translates business requirements into analytical applications
• Collaborates with other project members and drive the development of BI initiatives
• Designs, develops, and tests ETL solutions including modeling data warehouse metadata and automating data loading processes
• Establishes ETL environments according to project requirements
• Design and develop ETL processes to satisfy all program area requirements
• Develops and implements an efficient migration process to move ETL objects from development to test and production environments
• Understands database design, programming concepts, data modeling and framework management
• Supports star schema modeling and implementation of a data warehouse
• Communicates ideas to both technical and non-technical people in all levels of the organization
• Effectively communicates technical architecture details of INFORMATICA and other parts of the BI solution to others
• Develops advanced, and complex INFORMATICA
• Works with Business Analysts, Data Architects, Enterprise Architects and ETL Architects to ensure business requirements are being met with the solution being developed
• Identify and reuse of ETL components and services to avoid duplicative implementations
• Mentor other team members in developing, documenting and modifying ETL components
• Support and administer the INFORMATICA environments

Musts:

• BA/BS in computer science or equivalent training
• Full understanding and experience in implementing BI solutions and data warehousing is required
• Full understanding of INFORMATICA 9 is required especially dealing with very large volumes of data, real time or micro batches
• Full comprehension of SQL, cardinality, levels of granularity, normalized vs de-normalized, handling of slowly changing dimensions, auditing, database and tool optimization techniques and other such data architecture best practices is required
• Data architecture and modeling experience implementing proper data structures for a BI solution using tools such as INFORMATICA and COGNOS is required
• INFORMATICA 8 or 9 certification, Scrum Master Experience or Certification (Preferred)
• Experience Level: Data Warehousing – 3-5 year(s) ETL – 3-5 year(s) Informatica – 3-5 year(s) Oracle/SQL – 3-5 year(s)
• Outstanding Informatica design and development abilities
• Experience in ETL performance tuning/optimization
• Experience working with complex Informatica transformations
• Strong experience identifying, researching, and resolving ETL issues and producing root cause analysis documentation
• Experience writing ETL specifications
• Experience developing complex ETL mappings
• Experience with Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL tools) to facilitate loading large amounts of data
• Experience with versioned repositories and configuration management
• Identifies areas of improvement
• Oracle Database: 7+ Years
• Understanding of Oracle PL/SQL techniques to write stored procedures, triggers and packages that analyze several million rows across several database tables
• Ability to grasp relational data models quickly and program using SQL and PL/SQL
• Clear understanding of SQL's analytical processing capabilities
• Understanding of Oracle dynamic SQL and ability to write complex procedures using dynamic SQL
• Familiarity with Oracle Data Partitioning techniques to manage, support and performance tune very large databases (VLDB's)
• Understanding of Parallel execution features of Oracle to dramatically reduce response times for data intensive operations
• Ability to write efficient PL-SQL procedures
• Design complete solutions
• Database / Other: 5+ Years
• Experience in the analysis, design, development & deployment of large scale databases
• Experience in the design and development of data warehousing is a plus
• Ability to write and understand complex SQL required
• Knowledge of Oracle PL/SQL best practices and development methodologies or standards - Stored Procedures, Packages, Triggers, Debugging, Tuning
• Data modeling Experience a plus
• Data Warehousing experience a plus
• Unix OS: 5+ Years
• Experience working with Unix servers
• Experience with Shell scripting
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline or have equivalent experience
• Strong ETL design and development abilities, PL-SQL and Stored Procedures to upload data from different sources